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Commentary by Rupert Maas

Fred Walker was only 35 when he died, much lamented and admired, and his pictures are rare. His technique in watercolour was lush and saturated with bodycolour. Ruskin described his carefully set figures as posed in 'galvanised-Elgin' attitudes. Here, between her novel and her piano, a girl has been dreaming. She has received a Valentine, and with a happy smile she looks distractedly at a painting of a wedding visible to us in the mirror.